Epic Celebrations – You’re Awesome

Tuesday!  Design Team Challenges for Hand Stamped Sentiments (#410) – Color and Cardz 4 Guyz (#318) – Use some type of Coloring Medium.  I chose to create a card for a Teenager and picked the retired stamp set – Epic Celebrations (circa 2018) for Retro Rubber (#202) using the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#400) Sketch.  Let’sContinue reading “Epic Celebrations – You’re Awesome”

Jolly Gingerbread – Framed & Festive

Welcome back!  Round Two with Sketch Saturday (#721) including the option of using an embossing folder flipped to the horizontal position for Jingle Belles – Cardstock Christmas and Happy Little Stampers Christmas including Candy Canes. Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  Merry Christmas. ThankContinue reading “Jolly Gingerbread – Framed & Festive”

Fable Friends – Happy Spring

Welcome back!  Happy Monday! Several fun challenges influenced this particular card. Festive Friday (#130) for a number of the items listed and I chose the retired stamp set Fable Friends, as it loosely reminds me of the Peter Rabbit series of books; the new I Spy With My Little Eye (#1) for a Critter; theContinue reading “Fable Friends – Happy Spring”

Spring Apple Blossoms – Wonderful Friend

I have the pleasure of being invited to be a guest designer for Tic Tac Toe (#200) this round on their 200th Board. What a great collection of options…so many ways to go. I chose the Center Line: Wood, Flowers and Die Cuts. I selected the color combination suggested at the Global Design Project (#385)Continue reading “Spring Apple Blossoms – Wonderful Friend”

Spring Rainbow Stripes & Pennants – Celebrating You.

Welcome back!  It is Tuesday…let’s play… A few challenges are running with a similar theme: Can You Handle the Pressure (#27), Just Us Girls (#670) and Shopping Our Stash (#492).  I chose a more muted or softer Rainbow Palette, so I am adding the card to Make My Monday (#196) and bringing it all together,Continue reading “Spring Rainbow Stripes & Pennants – Celebrating You.”

Sweet Spring Floral – Hello

Welcome to the weekend.  A quick little clean and simple card for you. Playing with Color Throwdown (#733) Colors. Additional inspiration: Time Out (#233) for Style; Just Add Ink (#643) for Materials and Tools; Happy Little Stampers (March) Watercolor for Medium; and sharing with Jan’s Digi Stamps (March) as this is a Spring card. HereContinue reading “Sweet Spring Floral – Hello”

A Classic Birthday

One last deadline for today…another color challenge.  This one is for Just Us Girls (#669). The colors felt very masculine to me, and we always need guy cards.  I selected the sketch from Tuesday Morning (#698) and to use dies for the cut shapes and therefore chose to also share the card with Happy LittleContinue reading “A Classic Birthday”

Best Wishes for an Amazing Year

A little inspiration goes a long way…today I am actually creating for the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#398) challenge on Tuesday.  At Case-ing Tuesday, we select a Card Sample from one of the current catalogs and remake it.  Keep it the same, change it completely or create something in-between. I was inspired by the following challenges:Continue reading “Best Wishes for an Amazing Year”

Gilded Leaves – Cheers

Another work week and I am off to a good start.  Playing with two clean and simple card challenges: CAS Colours & Sketches (#505) and AAA Cards (#235) and picking up the colors and themes from Inspired By (#227), Color Hues (#59) and Colorful Options (March). Here is the result: Steps: And that was it! Continue reading “Gilded Leaves – Cheers”

Perfectly Penned – Celebrate Today

What a glorious day today – perfect for celebrating!  I hope you are having a lovely day, too. A whole lot of inspiration contributed to the making of this card… Double Trouble (#132) celebrating Creative Creases (#52) on their two year anniversary and looking for a Fancy Fold and some Spring Flowers; Retro Rubber (#201)Continue reading “Perfectly Penned – Celebrate Today”